After this record he retired from music to embark on a 12-year career directing and producing porn films. Yella says he produced more than 300 porn films.[6]

In November 2011 Yella began working on a new album, entitled West Coastin', which was released in the summer of 2012.[7]

Yella was played by Neil Brown Jr. in the 2015 N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton.[8] He is portrayed as very interested in sex and women, and also as less aggressive than the other members and unwilling to engage in conflict with Ice Cube.